Happy Item's Disc
21 tracks representing the music I’ve listened to over the past two decades. Each track corresponds to a specific year between 2005 and 2025, forming a kind of soundtrack to my listening habits during that time.
Track List
| Track | Year | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2005 | Will You Smile Again For Me | …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead |
| 2 | 2006 | Long Distance Call | Phoenix |
| 3 | 2007 | Johnny Foreigner | Salt, Peppa and Spinderella |
| 4 | 2008 | Livin' At The Corner Of Dude & Catastrophe | MC Frontalot |
| 5 | 2009 | Who Knows Who | Muse (Feat The Streets) |
| 6 | 2010 | Duet | Gonjasufi |
| 7 | 2011 | Hold On | SBTRKT |
| 8 | 2012 | Lies | CHVRCHES |
| 9 | 2013 | Hungry Face | Mogwai |
| 10 | 2014 | Hudsonville MI 1956 | La Dispute |
| 11 | 2015 | Wings | Little Simz |
| 12 | 2016 | Ru Kyoku | Remigai (Feat Nakamura High School Brass Band) |
| 13 | 2017 | Sorceress | Jordan Rakei |
| 14 | 2018 | Song of Storms | Mikel,GameChops |
| 15 | 2019 | This World is Drunk | Raphael Saadiq |
| 16 | 2020 | Wildfires | SAULT |
| 17 | 2021 | Meanwhile | Gorillaz (feat. Jelani Blackman & Barrington Levy) |
| 18 | 2022 | Moody | Self Esteem |
| 19 | 2023 | I Refuse | HARU NEMURI |
| 20 | 2024 | Kinky | bby |
| 21 | 2025 | Djo | Egg |
Cover & Label Design
For the cover, I discovered that a folded A4 sheet of paper fits perfectly inside a MiniDisc case. All you need to do is make one cut down the middle (see red line in the last photo), and it can then be folded into a booklet. I used that format to draw a comic book–style insert, with each panel illustrating a loose snapshot from a different year. For the disc itself, I designed a label featuring an illustration of the MiniDisc recorder used to make it.
Technical
Disc used was a TDK 80 MIN
Recorded with a Sony MZ-N707